4. Yet he pushed the plan with so much focus, creative insight, and personal integrity that innovation with impact became much more than a buzzword.
A、A. 诚信
B、B. 整体
C、C.智慧
D、D. 奉献
A、A. 诚信
B、B. 整体
C、C.智慧
D、D. 奉献
Smith Sports Equipment
P.O.Box 1014
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74109—1014
Phone 918 555-1642
Fax 918 555-0170
September 21, 2002
Mr. Michael Trigg
17 Westwood Place
Quincy, MA 02171
Dear Mr. Trigg,
Thank you for writing to us on September 15th about the trouble you experienced with our model 191 fishing reel(线轴) and for sending the reel to us for examination. We are sorry to hear about the difficulties you had with the release button.
We have examined your reel and found the problem. It seems that a retaining pin(针) on the button spring was pushed into the side of the reel casing(包装), thereby making it inoperable(不可操作的). The retaining pin is a vital yet delicate part of your reel. In order to make it function properly, it must be pushed gently. Since the pin was damaged by misuse, we are not able to refund(退还) your purchase price.
We will be pleased, however, to repair your reel for $9.98 and return it to you for more hours of fishing pleasure. Please let us know your decision.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Respectfully,
Ralph Montoya,
Manager of Customer Relations Department
When did Mr. Trigg write to the manager about the reel he bought?
On ______.
A.swore to
B.smiled at
C.hugged
D.cursed
A、He didn’t want to live in the world.
B、He couldn’t bear the anguish when his motherland was invaded.
C、He slipped into the river without carefulness.
D、Someone pushed him into the river.
A.pushed
B.maintained
C.disciplined
D.afforded
听力原文: Many years ago, there lived a poor man who had only one son. One day, there was no more money or food left in I the house, so the man said," My son, you must go to find some work and earn some money."
The young man left home. He walked many miles until he met a rich farmer who had thousands of sheep. This farmer needed a shepherd to look after his sheep so he gave the young man the job.
There were seven mountains around the farm, and there were sheep in every field on every mountain. One day, black clouds gathered. A storm began. The wind tore off branches and blew down mighty trees. The rain poured down. Paths and bridges were washed away.
The young man rushed around and gathered the sheep from the seven hillsides to lead them to shelter in the farm. He had almost reached the farm with his enormous flock when he saw that the bridge over the last stream had been washed away. There was only a wooden plank left.
It was only safe for the sheep to walk across the plank one at a time. They did not like the look of the narrow, creaky piece of wood, but the shepherd pushed a big black sheep across and the rest started to follow, one at a time, one at a time.
What happened next? I'll tell you when all the sheep are safely across the plank. At the moment they axe still going over, one at a time, one at a time, one at a time.
Have all the sheep crossed over the bridge yet? Oh dear me, no. The young man saved thousands of sheep from the mountains and fields. They all have to get across that shaky plank, and they are still crossing, one at a time, one at a time. When will the last sheep have crossed? You may well ask. The answer is, they will all have crossed when every sheep is on the other side! But just now, they are still walking over, one at a time, one at a time.
And what about the young man? Well, he is still waiting, and watching those sheep crossing the plank, one at a time.
One at a time, one at a time.
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A.He wanted to be a shepherd.
B.His father had-no more money for food.
C.His mother wanted him to find a wife.
D.He wanted to earn much more money.
Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn't been born yet, or is a baby now. That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created before the problem can be solved. But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein emerging anytime soon.
For one thing, physics is a much different field today. In Einstein's day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.
Education is different, too. One crucial aspect of Einstein's training that is overlooked is the years of philosophy he read as a teenager—Kant, Schopenhauer and Spinoza, among others. It taught him how to think independently and abstractly about space and time, and it wasn't long before he became a philosopher himself.
"The independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan(工匠) or specialist and a real seeker after truth, " Einstein wrote in 1944.
And he was an accomplished musician. The interplay between music and math is well-known. Einstein would furiously play his violin as a way to think through a knotty physics problem.
Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.
"Maybe there is an Einstein out there today, " said Columbia University physicist Brian Greene, "but it would be a lot harder for him to be heard. "
Especially considering what Einstein was proposing.
"The actual fabric of space and time curving? My God, what an idea!" Greene said at a recent gathering at the Aspen Institute. "It takes a certain type of person who will bang his head against the wall because you believe you'll find the solution. "
Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of 1905. These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by a virtual unknown. There were no footnotes or citations.
What might happen to such a submission today?
"We all get papers like those in the mail, " Greene said. "We put them in the junk file. "
What do scientists seem to agree upon judging from the first two paragraphs?
A.Einstein pushed mathematics almost to its limits.
B.It will take another Einstein to build a unified theory.
C.No physicist is likely to surpass Einstein in the next 200 years.
D.It will be some time before a new Einstein emerges.
When President Obama reached India, one of the first things he pushed for was
A.to improve the lives of both countries.
B.to protect the security for Asia and for the world.
C.to meet with the First Lady.
D.to increase trade between the two countries.
over three decades in 1933
V.S. Naipaul, a writer in search of roots and winner of Nobel Prize for literature in 1999, was born in Trinidad(1), the son of an Indian civil servant. In his childhood, he was first educated in his hometown and then Oxford University, where he studied literature. There he met Pat and they got married(2).(3), he has been based in England yet spent much time traveling around the world. Travels(4)have taken him around the world on a quest for home and for roots. Sir V.S. Naipaul, now 69, was knighted (授以爵位) by Queen Elizabeth(5). A critic wrote the following about him: "(He is) the wanderer who tries to go home, but is not taken in and is accepted by another home only so long as he admits he is a lodger there."
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